contrib and installability in testing

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

I've noticed that several packages from contrib are unable to get into
testing because (as allowed by policy's definition of contrib) they
depend on packages not in the distribution. I appreciate that this is a
bit of a pain to distinguish from normal uninstallable packages, but is
there any chance that some exceptions could be made? I'm thinking of
things like this:

trying: fop
skipped: fop (157+1)
    got: 32+0: a-8:a-6:h-15:i-3
    * i386: libfop-java

(missing j2sdk1.3 | j2se1.3 | java2-runtime)

trying: jakarta-jmeter  
skipped: jakarta-jmeter (149+1)
    got: 32+0: a-8:a-6:h-15:i-3
    * i386: jmeter

(missing j2sdk1.3)

trying: junit
skipped: junit (148+2)
    got: 32+0: a-8:a-6:h-15:i-3
    * i386: junit

(missing java2-runtime | j2re1.3)

There are probably some similar non-Java packages I've missed.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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